The contribution of macrophyte-derived organic matter to microbial biomass in salt-marsh sediments: Stable carbon isotope analysis of microbial biomarkers

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 309-319

  Boschker, H T S ^a   De Brouwer, J F C ^a   Cappenberg, T E ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKER; BIOMASS; ORGANIC MATTER; SALTMARSH; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SCHOENOPLECTUS MARITIMUS; SCIRPUS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA ANGLICA;

EID: 0033062905     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.2.0309     Document Type: Article

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